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I am part of a wonderfully diverse movement of people of all ages, ethnicities, races, faiths, and political backgrounds.

We are secular and religious; Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and many other; of all ages, economic classes, and political backgrounds; we are united by a commitment to justice and truth, opposition to bigotry, and determination to end the violence and oppression against Palestinians and others that generates war and profound tragedy throughout the Middle East and far beyond.

Please note:

For my main articles and the most important information, please go to the If Americans Knew website. Also, we post a great deal of information on our Facebook page. In addition to those, however, now and then I like to tell people about behind-the-scenes happenings, random information that I've stumbled across but not written an article about, etc. and so I place these on this blog.

I am NOT the British historian

As I write above, I am not the author of books about British history. That Alison Weir, who is English, tells me that she is receiving harrassment and threats because some people mix her up with me. These are causing her extreme concern and forcing her to end her book tours in the U.S. PLEASE, ISRAEL PARTISANS, LEAVE HER ALONE. If you must threaten to kill someone because you wish facts about Israel-Palestine to remain hidden, I'm the one you mean.

Wikipeda distortions

Everyone should be aware that Wikipedia can be edited by anonymous individuals who may or may not have a political agenda. Since Israel partisans work to dominate Wikipedia entries regarding Israel, the information on Wikipedia may be skewed. Please see "A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia" for more on this type of thing.

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I hope people will order my quickly read book, AGAINST OUR BETTER JUDGEMENT: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel

Of Particular Note...

Why?
Daily news, commentary, and analysis
History
Attack on the USS Liberty
Rachel Corrie
Nonviolence Movement of Palestinians and Israelis
My articles (Go to this link and scroll down to see all my articles on Israel-Palestine)
Falsehoods about me: Please read my reply here to falsehoods about me by the "Anti-Defamation" League, and a discussion here about similar attacks by others, which are periodically repeated (and frequently exaggerated) by other groups and individuals. Obviously, the best way to evaluate claims about what I've written is to read my articles for yourself.

Why?

As I mention above, this is where I write about less important, more tangential aspects of my work. For my main articles and the most important news please go to the If Americans Knew and Council for the National Interest websites.

Previous blogs

We used to have daily news site featuring a diverse compendium of reports on Israel-palestine, focusing largely on news that is unreported or under-reported by US media. Now, however, this information is on the If Americans Knew website. We also had a site containing daily commentary and analysis, and another blog that periodically deconstructs AP coverage on Israel-Palestine. However, we haven't had the time to update these in recent years.

History

The best short but thorough history I've seen on this issue is the Origin of the Palestine-Israeli Conflict. You can order copies of this booklet and others to give out in your community (or you can just print them out yourself -- they're all available as PDFs). (We also have a one-page synopsis that sketches the outlines of the conflict and a short but I think excellent brochure on "How Palestine Became Israel ".)

Attack on The USS Liberty

Because so few people know about Israel's extremely ruthless attack on the US Navy ship, the USS Liberty, I'd like to alert you to that as well. This is a profoundly important topic. The crew members, who are still waiting for justice, have waged a heroic (but to date unsuccessful) campaign to bring this attack before the American people.

One of the most important articles is the report by the independent commission chaired by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer (among its illustrious panel members was Marine General Ray Davis, the nation's highest-ranking Medal of Honor recipient at the time). This report provides evidence that the facts on this attack were covered up at the order of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Normally, such evidence -- from such a distinguished body -- would result in Congressional hearings.

In this case, the media buried it -- even the Washington Post failed to report on this historic event on Capitol Hill. While AP had an excellent news report on the panel's briefing in the Rayburn House Office Building, this highly newsworthy story, which should have been headlined around the country, was buried in its wire offerings of the day and very few news media picked it up or gave it the prominence it deserved.

The crew has supplied a detailed legal brief on the this incident to the Secretary of the Army, the agency required by law to investigate war crimes against American citizens. Again, this has not been reported to the American public.

Such neglect by the American media is unconscionable.

Rachel Corrie

While growing numbers of people are deeply saddened at Rachel Corrie's death, numerous people throughout the US know little or nothing about it. In addition, as with the USS Liberty, there has been a concerted effort to falsify the circumstances and to blame the victim. We have done our best to supply thorough information on this tragedy.

Nonviolence Movement of Palestinians and Israelis

In addition to a vigorous Palestinian nonviolence movement, there are growing numbers of Israeli groups also working toward peace. These Palestinian and Israeli peace workers and human rights advocates deserve to have their principled and often courageous activities reported to Americans, yet this rarely occurs. (See our AP report for evidence.) We report on these in our list of the wide variety of groups working toward peace and justice.

Israeli forces have shot and viciously beaten some of these Israelis; killed and injured a number of international peace activists (for example, Tom Hurndall, James Miller, Brian Avery, Tristan Anderson, Tove Johansson , Chris Brown and Kim Lamberty; and killed, maimed and tortured a multitude of Palestinians engaged in nonviolent activities.

Swedish 19-year-old Tove Johansson was attacked while the Israeli military stood by. Chanting "We killed Jesus, we'll kill you too," members of the mob broke her cheekbone and spat on her.

Media Omissions:

We have an entire section about this on the If Americans Knew website, including our statistical studies on US media coverage of deaths among both populations.

NY Times considers Israeli goats more newsworthy than Palestinian children

CNN considers damaged motorcycle more important than injured Palestinian children

Augustana College Prof Murray Haar is trying to block my talks in South Dakota

Apparently, Dr. Murray Haar, chairperson of the Religion, Philosophy, and Classics Departments at Augustana College in South Dakota, is trying to pressure colleges to cancel my upcoming lectures on Israel, Palestine, and America.

He is also, it appears, trying to pressure the media not to cover them.

It's so sad to see academics without academic principles.

Those who suffer most are the students who should be learning from scholars committed to learning, knowledge, and free academic inquiry.

It's truly unfortunate when their professors are partisans who attempt to abuse their power, and whose actions demonstrate a profound lack of principle.

According to his departmental profile, Dr. Haar "teaches courses dealing with the holocaust, Judaism and Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, religion, violence, courage, and evil. He also teaches Hebrew and Jewish philosophy. Haar has taken students to Israel and India. He has published a number of articles and given a variety of papers dealing with Israel and the holocaust."

It appears that Prof. Haar has succceeded in preventing a lecture by me at Augustana College. I suspect he worries that in a "free marketplace of ideas," the facts I present would trump the fallacies he prefers.

I hope Augustana students will learn of my other presentations in South Dakota and attend one. I will welcome their presence, their courage in listening to a presentation on a topic of great importance, their challenging questions, and their own independent research into the subject.

Perhaps they will be able to teach Dr. Haar that's what college is supposed to be about.

My schedule will be posted on the If Americans Knew calendar.

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Reader Comments (1)

You are absolute scum Alison Weir, a pathetic piece of sh%+ actually. You pale in comparison to the accomplishments of Dr. Haar, for he is an ACTUAL scholar with factual knowledge based in scholarship and texts instead of your paranoid-schizophrenic-like views and theories you hold which are only matched by the radical hard liners on the Palestinian side whom also hold views of denial of the holocaust, a call for the destruction of Israel and its Jewish inhabitants and aggressively targeting innocent civilian populations in and outside of Israel (ex. Syria). You are neither an intellectual nor do you contribute anything positive to the Israeli/Arab conflict other than lies and once again, paranoiac theories. Also, if you are going to call out Dr. Haar's beliefs to be fallacies then you better damn well explain why they are so; you are not allowed to cite anything from your personal experience, what you saw on your small journey in Israel and MOST CERTAINLY NOT your completely biased "research" on the findings of the distortion of the American media.

This comment will probably never make it to your website because bluntly exposes the truth and because ultimately you are a coward. So, if you claim to be a fair promoter of the freedom of ideas in the marketplace for people, especially students, then you will approve this comment and let the talk begin.

Whether you line it or not, your visit to the College of Charleston, although hostile and at times rude on our part, was a complete win for the cause and ideals you so blatantly oppose, either explicitly or in quietly in your consciousness hidden from your critics because revealing so would certainly disqualify you from this political realm/debate and possibly even as a living human being.

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